Disclaimer: I don't want to sound like I'm defending Microsoft here, I hate Windows and despise MS's business tactics.
IANAL, but I have been reading copyright/trademark law extensively lately. I'm helping a friend legally secure his band name, as well as exclusive use of the name on t-shirts, posters, stickers, etc. All of that is in the realm of Trademarks, more specifically, a subset called a "Service Mark."
"Microsoft" is a trademark. Trademarks aren't like Copyrights. If a trademark owner knows someone else is violating their trademark and doesn't do anything about it, their trademark can be REVOKED. Where with Copyright, you can ignore someone violating your copyright if you want, and it's still a valid copyright.
I don't agree with Microsoft's tactic of waiting for a counter-offer so that they could bring out the big guns, but they had to make an effort to notify Mike Rowe that they believed he was in violation.
Aside from the legal aspects, you and I both know he only used "soft" in the name because it'd sound exactly like "Microsoft."
No, it's not the licensing. If it were a licensing issue that made Apple choose FreeBSD it would have been because Apple didn't want to share their code. Apple released Darwin under an open-source license which they could have just as easily done if they chose Linux.
No, Adobe dropped Premiere for OS X because Apple released Final Cut and it's way better than Adobe's product.
Someone from Adobe was quoted saying something to the effect of "We're not going to try and compete with Apple. Their customers will want to use their product no matter how good ours is."
P3 700, 512 MB RAM, SB Live!, Radeon 7000 (dual head) on Win XP. The cdrom is a Creative 8x4x32 CD-RW.
It only lage when trying to access the cd. The cd light stays on solid, and the cd keeps spinning up, like it's having a problem reading the cd. Then after 30 seconds or so, it starts playing.
If I manually switch to the next track, it'll lag again. If I let it switch on it's own, it's fine.
Does anyone else's iTunes for Windows lag horridly anytime you do anything CD related? Playing a CD lags, switching tracks while playing a CD lags, importing a CD lags, etc...
I'm sure it can't be my cd drive because it functions perfectly while copying files, playing tracks in WinAmp, etc.
Red Hat doesn't want to point people to OS X because it's actually good. If they point people at Windows, they'll get sick of it in another year or two and try Linux again. With OS X they'll never want to leave.
I'm not trying to flame or troll here. Just hear me out.
I migrated all my boxes (~ 20) from RedHat to FreeBSD about three years ago and haven't looked back since. If you're going to take the time to migrate all your machines to Debian, maybe you should consider setting up a FreeBSD box to play with.
1. Open the Registry Editor. 2. Expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Office\ 10.0\ Outlook\ Security 3. Create a new string value by selecting New and then String Value from the Edit menu. 4. Name the new value Level1Remove. 5. Double-click the new Level1Remove to edit it, and enter the filename extensions you'd like to stop Outlook from blocking. Extensions should be typed in lower case, without the dots (.), and separated by semicolons (;). For example, type
exe;mdb;vbs
to allow.exe,.mdb, and.vbs attachments, respectfully. 6. Click Ok and then close the Registry Editor when you're done. You may have to restart Outlook for this change to take effect.
I used to get a warning from Micros~1 about needing to patch my IM client due to security concerns, but I clicked the checkbox to deny further messages from them. =)
The lprm exploit is a local exploit, which requires having an account on the machine.
The Sendmail exploits could be executed remotely, but by default Sendmail only listens on 127.0.0.1, which would also make it a local exploit unless someone configured Sendmail to listen on an external interface.
Kerberos is disabled by default, and OpenSSL bundled with OpenBSD. It's not their code, although they do 'audit' it.
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Disclaimer: I don't want to sound like I'm defending Microsoft here, I hate Windows and despise MS's business tactics.
IANAL, but I have been reading copyright/trademark law extensively lately. I'm helping a friend legally secure his band name, as well as exclusive use of the name on t-shirts, posters, stickers, etc. All of that is in the realm of Trademarks, more specifically, a subset called a "Service Mark."
"Microsoft" is a trademark. Trademarks aren't like Copyrights. If a trademark owner knows someone else is violating their trademark and doesn't do anything about it, their trademark can be REVOKED. Where with Copyright, you can ignore someone violating your copyright if you want, and it's still a valid copyright.
I don't agree with Microsoft's tactic of waiting for a counter-offer so that they could bring out the big guns, but they had to make an effort to notify Mike Rowe that they believed he was in violation.
Aside from the legal aspects, you and I both know he only used "soft" in the name because it'd sound exactly like "Microsoft."
You can easily change the aqua buttons, tabs, scroll bars, etc. to what ever color you'd like.
OT so posting without karma bonus. That being said, Zim rules.
No, it's not the licensing. If it were a licensing issue that made Apple choose FreeBSD it would have been because Apple didn't want to share their code. Apple released Darwin under an open-source license which they could have just as easily done if they chose Linux.
No, Adobe dropped Premiere for OS X because Apple released Final Cut and it's way better than Adobe's product.
Someone from Adobe was quoted saying something to the effect of "We're not going to try and compete with Apple. Their customers will want to use their product no matter how good ours is."
Man, their CSS is beyond fucked up in Mozilla 1.6.
Your sig: Thank you! I was starting to think I imagined that. Nobody I know heard that one.
P3 700, 512 MB RAM, SB Live!, Radeon 7000 (dual head) on Win XP. The cdrom is a Creative 8x4x32 CD-RW.
It only lage when trying to access the cd. The cd light stays on solid, and the cd keeps spinning up, like it's having a problem reading the cd. Then after 30 seconds or so, it starts playing.
If I manually switch to the next track, it'll lag again. If I let it switch on it's own, it's fine.
Does anyone else's iTunes for Windows lag horridly anytime you do anything CD related? Playing a CD lags, switching tracks while playing a CD lags, importing a CD lags, etc...
I'm sure it can't be my cd drive because it functions perfectly while copying files, playing tracks in WinAmp, etc.
That means that Micros~1 isn't getting the money. That makes me smile.
BSD IS DYING
He's trying to figure out what unnamed company provided the hacked box.
Actually, it's OpenBSD that doesn't support SMP. FreeBSD and NetBSD both support it rather well.
Red Hat doesn't want to point people to OS X because it's actually good. If they point people at Windows, they'll get sick of it in another year or two and try Linux again. With OS X they'll never want to leave.
So Novell already bought Ximian, a Gnome-based desktop. Now Novell is going to buy Suse, the primary funder of KDE? Interesting.
I'm not trying to flame or troll here. Just hear me out.
I migrated all my boxes (~ 20) from RedHat to FreeBSD about three years ago and haven't looked back since. If you're going to take the time to migrate all your machines to Debian, maybe you should consider setting up a FreeBSD box to play with.
and what happens when your Microsoft firewall is found to be insecure?
1. Open the Registry Editor.
.exe, .mdb, and .vbs attachments, respectfully.
2. Expand the branches to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Office\ 10.0\ Outlook\ Security
3. Create a new string value by selecting New and then String Value from the Edit menu.
4. Name the new value Level1Remove.
5. Double-click the new Level1Remove to edit it, and enter the filename extensions you'd like to stop Outlook from blocking. Extensions should be typed in lower case, without the dots (.), and separated by semicolons (;). For example, type
exe;mdb;vbs
to allow
6. Click Ok and then close the Registry Editor when you're done. You may have to restart Outlook for this change to take effect.
Trillian is still working for me.
I used to get a warning from Micros~1 about needing to patch my IM client due to security concerns, but I clicked the checkbox to deny further messages from them. =)
Works pretty well, except that you can't close it's window without exiting like you can in OS X.
They give you a system tray icon, but "close window" and "exit" both quit the program (stopping the tunes) and remove the system tray icon.
How dumb.
My FreeBSD box says: "userdel: command not found" =)
Maybe he was implying that "hackers" is a term for programmers and they should have used the word "crackers" instead.
With frigging laser beams on their frigging heads.
I use that umask also. It means that files he creates are automatically chmodded to 640 and directories are automatically chmodded to 750.
"man umask" will tell you that you need to subtract the desired permissions from 777 to get the appropriate umask value.
You use numbers and not "chmod a+rw", right?
The lprm exploit is a local exploit, which requires having an account on the machine.
The Sendmail exploits could be executed remotely, but by default Sendmail only listens on 127.0.0.1, which would also make it a local exploit unless someone configured Sendmail to listen on an external interface.
Kerberos is disabled by default, and OpenSSL bundled with OpenBSD. It's not their code, although they do 'audit' it.